Life Patterns

Life patterns

All of us have underlying themes, which run throughout our lives, although we are usually too close, too much part of the picture, to be able to recognise these ourselves.

This phenomenon occurs because human beings tend to get stuck after particularly difficult experiences. Psychologists have long understood that when we fail to come to terms with something, the underlying issue stays with us and repeats itself again and again in our life.

It is not so much that we repeat life situations exactly, but that the way we see similar situations is coloured by the original problematic experience, and we tend to feel and react in the same fixed way.

The origin of the problem (the first difficult experiences) can usually be traced back to childhood, our most vulnerable and impressionable time, and crucially homeopaths have observed

that an unresolved issue will criss-cross between emotional, intellectual and physical levels.

Detective work

In practice identifying life patterns is not always easy, and the homeopath must sift through information gained during the consultation to find connections and underlying themes.

He will then try to match this "picture" with thousands of other cured cases recorded in the homeopathic materia medicas. The whole process can take many hours but choosing the correct remedy is crucial, for it can release outdated patterns of reacting, which have tied up energy and allow the individual's own system to complete the healing process.